I'm new ... probably been asked a dozen times, but I searched and do not see the same issue.
I am on discuss.tchncs.de and trying to subscribe to !privacy@lemmy.ml ... and it just flat doesn't work.
There seems to be two ways to subscribe ... from the privacy@lemmy.ml community, I click the "Subscribe" button, which asks for my home instance, then gives me this error:
"Could not fetch !privacy@lemmy.ml"
Alternately, searching for "!privacy@lemmy.ml" from my home page and trying to subscribe thru that, gives me this error message:
"Error!
There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room."
... which brought me here.
Thanks in advance.
2024/02/03, 17:07UTC Addendum: As of this moment, I can no longer find this community, at all ... clearly something is up with it. IDK if it's been permanently deleted, or if they're just having some kind of config/maintenance trouble, but for now, at least, it does not exist.
Has discuss defederated lemmy.ml?
It doesn't seem that way. It looks like a federation issue, but I'm not sure why. There's 2 communities from ml on there. One of them is !paradoxextra@lemmy.ml but it hasn't had recent posts. The other is !meta@lemmy.ml and the most recent post is from 23 days ago. So I guess after that is when problems started.
My own instance works fine with lemmy.ml
I have already successfully joined other lemmy.ml communities from discuss.tchncs.de ... so it's not an instance-wide "thing". Can an instance defederate from a specific community?
Yes. Lemmy.world did it to the piracy community for a couple weeks before walking it back.
True, but privacy hardly seems like a controversial community to get that kind of attention.